of the Fishery Board for Scotland, 



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APPENDIX G. No. 11. 



Bye-Jaws hitherto unpublished except in Edin 



hurgh Gazette. 



Bye-Laws 



Applicable to the River Howmore 

 South Uist : — 



IN THE Island of 



Name of River. 



Limits of Distriet and Division between 

 Upper and Lower Proprietors. 



Date from 

 which Bye-law 

 took effect. 



HOWMORE 





1st. That the limits of the District of the 

 Howmore River shall be the whole coasts 

 of the Islands of South Uist, Benbecula, 

 and Barra, and the whole coast of the 

 adjacent islands and islets presently pos- 

 sessed by John Gordon, Esq. , of Cluny ; 

 and that the district shall consist of the 

 portions of the sea coast and the estuary 

 and the river of the said islands. 



2nd. That the point below which the pro- 

 prietors of fisheries shall be lower pro- 

 prietors, and above which the proprietors 

 of fisheries shall be upper proprietors, 

 shall be a line drawn across the river 

 100 yards below the new road leading 

 from the North Ford to the Sound of 

 Barra. 



12th Dec. 1871. 



Name of River. 



Limits of Estuary. 





Date from 

 which Bye-law 

 took effect. 



HoWMORE 





A portion of a circle of 500 yards radius, to 

 be drawn from a centre placed mid-channel 

 in the river where it joins the sea at low 

 water of equinoctial spring- tides, and con- 

 tinued shorewards by tangents to' the circle 

 drawn to the nearest points of the shore of 



thft rpsnfip.tivp. sirlps nf fViA rivflv nf Tiin-Ti. 



8th March 1872. 







water mark ; also of equinoctial 

 tides. 



spring- 

















Name of River. 



Annual Close 

 Time. 



Extension of Time for 

 Rod Fishing. 



Date from 

 which Bye-law 

 took effect. 



HoWMORE . 





From 10th Sept. to 

 24th Feb., both 

 days inclusive. 



From 10th Sept. to 

 31st Oct., both days 

 inclusive. 



8th March 1872. 



ORKNEY AND SHETLAND ISLANDS. 



The Orkney and Shetland Islands have been erected into Fishery 

 Districts within the scope of the Salmon Fishery Acts of 1862 and 1868, 

 since these Acts and relative Bye-laws were ^published, but the Bye-laws 

 constituting them have as yet been published only in the EdinJjurgh 

 Gazette, They are now given below. 



